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Southern Plains Beaded Scout Shirt

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:3,000.00 USD Estimated At:6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD
Southern Plains Beaded Scout Shirt
The lot features an interesting scout shirt from the Southern Plains Indians, possibly the Comanche showing a nice hide construction with long frilly fringe and loom beaded glass trade seed beads. The large shirt is comprised of Indian brain tanned buckskin being sinew and trade thread sewn with two long, loom-beaded strips, which extend over the chest and shoulders to the back. The shirt is beautifully adorned with wonderful long hand-cut hide fringe; the fringe is uncommonly long and quite elaborate, shown along the bottom edge, under the arms, on the shoulders, shoulders, and cuffs, along with the chest and back. The shirt has a traditional collar and “V” cut at the front—this, paired with the loom beading, likely date this piece to the late 19th Century to early-mid 20th Century. The shirt has a nice patina from expected age and use, but overall is in good condition for its age with some additional worn age, presumable from a collector. The hide is still soft and supple and has that good buckskin smell, along with a yellow ocher coloring. The piece measures overall 31 inches long from the top of the collar to the front bottom edge and 21 inches across the width of the chest area without including the long fringes. Please review the war shirt pictures for your own representation of age, origin and condition.